Fugitive

//ˈfjuːd͡ʒɪtɪv//

"Fugitive" in a Sentence (13 examples)

I was on the alert for a fugitive criminal.

The fugitive surfaced in a small town fifty miles from here but then disappeared again.

The fugitive made a run for the border.

The high court decided to try the fugitive warlord in abstentia.

A picture of the fugitive was plastered all over the newspapers.

Tom is a fugitive.

Why did Kissinger flee Paris and make himself a fugitive from the French law?

The fugitive is armed and dangerous.

The fugitive crossed the river.

Tom was caught harboring a fugitive.

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“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,[…]the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!”

I found afterwards that he was the chauffeur, who filled the gaps left by a succession of fugitive butlers.

Her son Thomas was fugitived in the persecution.

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